Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-09
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. SATURDAY, APRIL g. 1887.
FRANK KERSER, who cholzei his wife to

FRANK KERNER, who choked his wife to
death and was convicted of murder in the
second degree at Reading, Pa, was SEN
| fenced on the 4th, by Judge Ermentrout,
to twelve years separate and solitary con-
| finement at hard labor in the Berks Coun-
| ty prison.
JOHN H. BARRON, president of the New
Hampshire Cattle Company, and promi
nent citizen, shot himself at the Office of
the corporation in Conc ord on the 4th He
was alive at last accounts, but there was
slight hope of his recovery. He is sup
posed to have been temporarily insane.
| AN unknown large two-masted schooner
ran between Nantucket and Hyannis dur
ing the storm on the % and sunk, only the
mastheads being visible from the shore
A boat was sent to her rescue on the 4th
but the vessels crew were not found and
are supposed to have been lost.
A LARGE quantity of dynamite used for
blasting, and stored in frame shanty on
the outskirts of Reading, Pa, exploded on
the 4th. Andrew Lueti had both legs
blown off and will die. Two others
Italians, names not ascertained, were
fearfully injured, one having his body
torn open. Samuel Wertz was also badly
hurt. The cause of the explosion is un
| known
| The boiler in George Crawford's saw.
mill on the river bank below Mill Creek,
| o., exploded on the 4th. 1t was thrown
high in the air and falling crushed a
shantyboat in the river, instantly killing
| Mrs. Lizzie Grant. Her hus sband and her
| mother-in-law were but few feet away.
| but were unharmed. James King, JEFF
| Vangerden, Lewis Elret and Matthew
Asher, employees of the mill, were all
| slightly hurt.
| AN animated sccne was witnessed on
| the 4th in the British House of Comm )
| because OF some severe structures used
| by a mem ber on the Speakers conduct in
connection with the cloture debate.
| M. KATKoFF, editor of the Moscow Ga
| zette, has been condemned to death by the
executive committee of the revolution
| lists at ST. Petersburg. He has received
his death warrant duly signed and coun-
| tersigned.
DELEGATES representing the milling in
| terests of Scotland met at Glasgow on the
4th and passed resolutions demanding of
| the government the imposition of the duty
| upon foreign -four.
| THE Secretary of the Interior has issued
| rules for the government of the Yellow
stone Park. These rules prohibit the kill
| ing of game, catching of fish, cutting of
timber, DETACHMENT Of geysers, and sell
ing Of liquors within the boundaries Of
| the park, and seek, by their strict enforce
ment to preserve the natural beauty of
the park.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided to or
der that the his toric battleship Kearsarge
be repaired at Portsmouth, n. H, despite
the fact that the old vessel is almost worn
out. The decision encourages naval off
GERS to hope that the Hartford, another of
the famous wooden vessels, will be kept
afioat as long as possible.
MARCH fires, according to the New York
Commercial -Balletins estimate. cost the
United States and Canada so, ,450, 000 or
s., 900, 900 above the average in that month
for dozen years past. The number of
large fires was extraordinary, there hav-
ing been twenty-five where the reported
loss was 100000 and more. At this rate,
says the Bulletin, the losses of 1887 will ex :
ceed those of 1856, which was an excep-
tional year.